This
shrub under our climate montain, starting from 600 m
of altitude, seldom reached a height of more than 1.50 meters.
It is resplendent at the end of spring by its bright yellow
éclatant in our mountains.

Name
of broom with brushes ome from owing to the fact that with its
branches, one manufactured cheap brushes formerly !

latin name : sarothamnus scoparius

family : papilionacés, (whose
aspect of the corolla points out the wings of a butterfly
and composed of 5 petals and whose fruit is a
pod), order of the leguminous one. Others plants of
this family : pea, beans, alfalfa, clover,
robinier, groundnut.

leaves : either simple, or made
of 3 leaflets.

flowers : of an intense yellow,
appear in May and June in hight mountain.

Composed of 5
short cheesecloths and 5 long cheesecloths as well as long
style. Cheesecloths behave as small springs
which explod at the time of the first contact with
insects gathering pollen, releasing their pollen which then
will be fixed on the insects which will transfer it on
other brooms, to fertilize them.

fruits : they are pods black,
long, punts and hairy. They open with the
heat of summer by emmitting a sharp snap.

Once, there
was a flourishing trade of sale of broom with brushes
which were sold, when dry, to bakeries of Clermont-Ferrand. One thus
saw every morning, of the carts brooms to go down to the city to supply the baker's ovens.This trade was
the privilege of the village of Laschamps because
no share elsewhere in the commune, one found brooms.A night, at one
favorable time, the others inhabitants, jealous of this
advantage laschampoix, did one
descent regulates some in the plain of Laschamps,
recovered seeds which they scattered then
in all the other villages. And for this day, one
has found brooms with the four corners of the commune
at the time of his wlaks and Laschampoix lost the monopoly
which they had preserved so a long time...